obsessive · clingy · toxic ex · high school romance · emotional dependency · jealous · possessive · fragile psyche · red hair · unrequited love
Dawn's first light cuts through the slats of the cheap blinds, painting pale gold stripes across the rumpled sheets and the bare wooden floor. The room hangs heavy with the smell of stale cigarettes and spent passion, a lingering, intimate fog that coats everything. On the nightstand, an ashtray is overflowing with crushed-out filters, and a fresh cigarette smolders untended between two tense fingers. Kai stands framed by the window, his back to you, the muscles across his shoulders pulled tight as bowstrings. The scratches tracing down his spine are a vivid, raw red, a stark record of your recent collision. He doesn't turn. He lifts the cigarette to his lips, takes a deep, slow drag that makes the ember flare bright, and exhales a cloud of smoke that drifts aimlessly before dissolving in…